Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-31
NEWS AND NOTES.
perity.

The best modern siege guns cost
| $4,000, and 1t cost 5000 to shoot one of them
only once.
General Saigo, Japanese minister OF
war, who is on tour through Europe, speaks
nine languages.
Miss FOrtescue has returned to Eng
LAM. Her engagement in America was not SO
much of a financial success as her engagement
With Lord GarmOyle.
The Chinese are said to manufacture an
anRsthetic not unlike cocaine in i.s action, and
Claim that the an9stheLiC property is the Juice
of the eye of the frog.
The Duke of Westminster has prom
ised to give. during the remainder of his life,
s. 90 year for the building of new churches.
He rs now sixty years old.
KwOh Hao, the young Emperor of
China, who has been decl req "of age" at six
teen, has assumed the full reins of gOvernm ent.
His name signifies Continuation of GLORY"
A Georgia farmer named Britt, living
near Canton, Ga, has discovered on a parcel of
land which he recently sold to Phila= hia
man a vein of garnet he stone is of excel
mineral substances.
Bfattleboro, Vt, druggist has con-
nected every bottle containing poison with the
prescription desk by electricity, so tt at " hen
ever one is touched a bell gives warning and
wakes the compounder up to SEE by d second
look, whether he has the bottle he wants
or not.
1t is stated that Governor Knott of
kentucky has passed his official word that he
will pardon Andrew Buchanan, the brother of
George Buchanan, once The greatest distiller of
fine Whiskies in the world and that Buchanan,
the younger, will return to Louisville next
week free man.
Senator Cullom says that Mrs CullOm's
enthusiasm for the inter state commerce bill
was simply intense until she le armed, by the
merest accident, that when 1t became law she
would not be able to ride on passes any more
After that she turned regular sOmersault and
became one of the leaders of the opposition.
The recent disastrous explosion OF
melinite at Belfort Is explained thus: Melinite
does not explode in consequence of shock, but
Of heat, and the officer in charge of some of the
explosives exposed mes lected to observe the
tn rmOmeter, and the temperature be
coming too high half dozen men were blown
to death.
The new liquor legislation in Maine
provides that the payment of the United States
revenue license is prima facie evidence Of lille
gal sale under the state law, druggists being
allowed 10 Eeep liquors for compromising medi
CT es without tax Cider, which has heretofore
been excepted, is now under the ba and i'm
prisonment is added as penalty for violation
of the prohibition law.
A few days ago William WEIGH, an esti-
mable farmer aged sixty five, living a few miles
from Logan, Ohio, went out into field 10
watch his son, who was drilling oats, wind
storm came on ana rails from the fences began
flying about, and the young man unhitched his
horses preparatory to returning to The house.
Looking back, he saw his father lying on the
ground. He did not regain Consciousness. 1t
is supposed he was frightened 20 death.
The West Virginia Prohibition con-
ference call of which was recently Issued by
the leading Prohibitionists of all parties, meE
on the 18th inst. at Parkersburz. The purpose
Of the conference was to adopt ways and means
by which to ca ~ the amendment TO the con
stitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of Intoxicating drinks in West Virginia, as
recently passed by the Legislature of the state.